I enjoyed my stay at the Protea. Free wireless internet, great pool, beautiful courtyard, AMAZING Indian food at the hotel restaurant, friendly and pleasant staff. No real complaints. Only downside was that my bathroom could have done with a renovation, looked a bit run down. But everything else was good and modern. Programmable in-room safes, brand new flat screen TV's,... more

Stayed here for 8 days on business. Was warned by other colleagues about ground floor rooms being damp so insisted I had an upper floor room. The room was clean and had everything working in it. There was wireless access which you only lost when one of the (many) power cuts happened. However, the hotel appears to have a generator... more

I have rarely looked forward to getting out of a hotel as much as I did the Protea Courtyard in Dar es Salaam. In fact, my flight from Dar to Addis wasn’t till late afternoon but I decamped to another hotel with my luggage so that I could have a decent lunch in comfort before departing. I like Protea as... more

The positives were - the staff were super friendly and helpful, and the courtyard is pretty and the pool is nice but tiny. The negatives - we had a room on the ground floor by the pool which was damp (damp sheets), one of the bed side lamps was broken, the TV channels were really bad, the safe didn't work,... more

----------- The Courtyard hotel is nice and clean, the staff is friendly and helpful, and the hotel's architecture is much more enjoyable than the usual concrete hotel blocks. Though, the rooms and the restaurant tend to be somewhat dark. Yet, there is one thing about this hotel which is really special, and this is, as the name indicates, the courtyard.... more